Raven Drake will hold a poetry reading in celebration of National Poetry Month at the Silver City Public Library on Friday, April 28, 11:00am-12:00pm. The event will feature poems from Drake's extensive corpus of verse, published in a series of volumes as well as in the Silver City Quarterly Review (scquarterlyreview.wordpress.com/noctune-and-other-poems).
According to the Academy of American Poets on their website (https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home), "Over the years, National Poetry Month has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry's vital place in our culture."
Originally from Boston, Drake moved to Grant County 10 years ago. The mountains and open spaces have provided him with a great deal of inspiration. His explorations of mythology and etymology have helped to fuel his writing ambitions. Mr. Drake's work has been featured in the 2004 Ink Spot Anthology of Poets, Las Cruces Poets and Writers Magazine, Tales of the Talisman, Illumen magazine, the March 2007 edition of the e-zine Aoife's Kiss, the Summer 2008 edition of the webzine La Lune Bleue Planete, Decanto magazine, and Apollo's Lyre. For more about Drake, visit ravendrake.webs.com.
The Silver City Public Library is located at 515 W. College Avenue at the corner of College and Cooper Street in Silver City. For more information about library events, see silvercitypubliclibrary.org or contact 575-538-3672 or ref@silvercitymail.com.